What’s a good topic for a paper that I have to write about an opinionated argument that happened earlier than 1400?

What was the true reason for the ___th crusade? (choose your favorite)

Is it fair to say that the Black Death killed 1/3 of Europe’s population?

Were Akhenaton’s motivations for his reformations primarily religious or political?

Is Herodotus’s estimation of the size of King Xerxes’s forces during his invasion of Greece really reasonable? (1,700,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry, 2,000 chariots and camels, 30,000 Thracians and Greeks, 3,000 ships, which is fairly incredible)

ok these are obscure as hell but I promise people argue about them plenty.

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Exciting news! The Internet Slowdown net neutrality protest planned for September 10th is really taking off. This morning, a dozen of the world’s largest websites announced that they’re joining in a big way. Sites you know and love like Etsy, Kickstarter, Wordpress, Vimeo, Mozilla, Namecheap, Foursquare, imgur, and reddit.

Will you join too?

Everyone has a role in the Internet Slowdown. Click here to find out what YOU can do.

Oh, but that’s not all that happened this morning. Just a few hours ago I got a phone call from a number in Washington, DC. The person on the other end tried to ask some questions without identifying themselves, but when I asked outright they told me they were from NCTA — yep, as in the National Cable Television Association, aka Comcast’s lobbying army.

They wanted to know when we would be announcing the names of the companies participating in the September 10th net neutrality protest. I suggested they take a look at the front page of The Guardian, or at this op-ed by the CEO of Etsy in Wired, and mentioned they may want to check out this TIME Magazine article. Then I hung up.

After the call, I couldn’t stop smiling. I’ve been organizing for many years and one thing I’ve learned is that powerful enemies only start contacting you when they’re scared. If they don’t think you’re being effective, they ignore you.

Friends, we are giving some of the most powerful interests in the world a run for their money. And they have tons of money. We’ve got Comcast & company shaken up and scared. This is our chance to to drive the message home and win this once and for all.

If you’ve got a website, blog, or Tumblr run the “slowdown” widget on your site to symbolically show your users a “loading” message and help people understand what the Web could be like without net neutrality. If you don’t have a site, change your profile pic to the “loading” symbol, so that the entire Internet is alive with protest on September 10th, and forward this email to everyone you know to spread the word.

The truth is, unlike Comcast and their cronies, we have nothing to hide. A report from the Sunlight Foundation yesterday showed that 99% of comments the FCC has received are in support of net neutrality. The public agrees, and hell hath no fury like the Internet scorned. As I write this email, I’m feeling more hopeful about our chances of victory in the battle for net neutrality than I have since we started this fight.

Last chance. We need you for the Internet Slowdown on September 10th. Are you in?

We can win this, and when we do, it’s a victory we can put in the history books.

For the Internet,-Evan Greer at Fight for the Future

P.S. Our friends at Namecheap are really throwing down in the fight for net neutrality. Check out the awesome video they just put up at NetNeutrality.com (nice URL right?), wait til you get to the part where people are riding on toilets chasing wall street bankers up a bike ramp.

P.P.S. There’s still time to get your very own #TeamInternet t-shirt or hoodie. Go here and reserve yours before they’re gone! http://ift.tt/1thkJ2W

LINK: http://ift.tt/1pyzK93“So,” Blaine begins one evening when they’re huddled together on the couch, his thumb fidgeting with one of the strings of Kurt’s hoodie. “I know you’re not opposed to using toys in the bedroom.” “Mhm,” Kurt hums in agreement, eyes squinting a little at the unexpectedness of the statement. Nestling closer to Blaine’s warm body, Kurt is about to brush it off, ready to continue letting himself be lulled back into the triviality of what’s flickering across their TV screen. “I’m just wondering if you’d ever be willing to use anything besides a plug or dildo.” “What are you trying to say? Are you trying to propose something?” Blaine starts squirming a little, a flush creeping up his cheeks. “Well, um, I might have ordered something online a few weeks ago.”!fic, site:archiveofourown, fandom:glee, rating:explicit, pairing:blaine.anderson/kurt.hummel, ~author:colfhummel, genre:porn, kink:sex-toys

LINK: http://ift.tt/WBs8MlBlaine forgets him and skank!Kurt’s three year anniversary, so he buys an apology kitten. || oh god this is totally totally TOTALLY not the way to apologize for something like this do not go buy your partner a pet without talking to them just because you fucked up but oh god it’s also adorable and fluffy and KITTEN!fic, site:archiveofourown, fandom:glee, rating:notrated, pairing:blaine.anderson/kurt.hummel, ~author:downtowndystopia, genre:gen, rating:G-PG13, genre:au, glee:skank!kurt, note:drabble/ficlet, adorable

a show like House or Sherlock except w a woman protagonist. She’d be fired in the first episode for being a jerk in her workplace. Sorry, did I say the first episode? She’d never have made it through her first unpaid internship. It would be a very short show

Today’s the day. The day you help save the internet from being ruined.

Ready?

Yes, you are, and we’re ready to help you.

(Long story short: The FCC is about to make a critical decision as to whether or not internet service providers have to treat all traffic equally. If they choose wrong, then the internet where anyone could start a website for any reason at all, the internet that’s been so momentous, funny, weird, and surprising—that internet could cease to exist. Here’s your chance to preserve a beautiful thing.)

LINK: http://ift.tt/1kHJcXeFitzSimmons and Skye suffer a mishap that causes them to transform into their five-year-old selves. Ward must handle the situation as best he can while Coulson and May set off in search of the cure. Havoc and playtime ensues.!fic, site:archiveofourown, fandom:agentsofs.h.i.e.l.d., rating:generalaudiences, ~author:lazarusthefirst, genre:au, au:jossed, adorable, trope:deaged!character, character:grant.ward, character:skye, character:jemma.simmons, character:leo.fitz, genre:gen

LINK: http://ift.tt/1rBAiCn“I wasn’t—” The words come out of him in a rush, but there’s nowhere for them to go. They hang between them in the air. Sam raises an eyebrow. Bucky buries his face in his hand, runs his fingers through the hair he hasn’t washed in four days because he can’t stand showering and having to face this broken, foreign body. “I’m pretty sure no one would have bothered. I mean, I can’t say for sure, and I probably wouldn’t have fought them or said no” – he swallows the bile that rises as he realizes that, yes, he knows for sure that he wouldn’t have resisted, and now that’s yet more knowledge he’s going to have to live with—“but I don’t … think that happened. So I don’t really need to look into it. You can stop looking at me like that now.”!fic, site:archiveofourown, fandom:marvelcinematicuniverse, fandom:captainamerica, rating:teenandupaudiences, pairing:james.”bucky”.barnes/steve.rogers, pairing:james.”bucky”.barnes.&.steve.rogers, pairing:james.”bucky”.barnes.&.sam.wilson, ~author:taleworthtelling, rating:PG13-R, warning:other/unspecified, character:bucky|james.barnes, warning:brainwashing/mindfuckery, genre:gen

LINK: http://ift.tt/17z5HJMClint vanishes from the battle and wakes up a few blocks away from the action, and now he’s sixteen. He doesn’t know how the hell he ended up in NYC, but he knows he has to lay low. Clint’s pretty good at laying low, even as a kid, and it takes a little while for Phil and the rest of the team to figure out what happened to him, and a while longer to actually find him. They also have to convince him that they can be trusted. It’s magic, of course, but the kicker is that the spell comes with a terrible choice attached, and Clint is not in the best shape to be making choices about his own life.!fic, site:archiveofourown, fandom:marvelcinematicuniverse, fandom:marvel, fandom:theavengers, rating:teenandupaudiences, pairing:clint.barton/phil.coulson, ~author:Harkpad, trope:deaged!character, character:clint.barton, character:phil.coulson, warning:other/unspecified